Joao Moreira lit up a cloud-blanketed Sha Tin this afternoon (Sunday, 6 October) with a dazzling treble that owed plenty to the fruits of a hitherto infrequent alliance with Richard Gibson. Not to be outdone, trainer Paul O’Sullivan enjoyed … Read more
Cox Plate fancy Danceteria will have a chance to “spin his wheels” ahead of the famous weight-for-age race when he makes his Australian debut for his local owners at Caulfield on Saturday. The son of Redoute’s Choice, Danceteria … Read more
Twelve months ago Irishman John Allen scored a career landmark victory in the Victoria Derby aboard Extra Brut. Will history repeat this November with another Irishman this time landing the classic prize? The latest arrival from the Emerald Isle, … Read more
THE Spring Racing carnival officially starts on Saturday but for we dedicated racing punters we’ve been looking ahead to the Spring Majors for weeks now. Every time a Group or Listed race is run we’re analysing whether the combatants … Read more
Melbourne Cup hopes Prince Of Arran, Constantinople and Mustajeer, as well as Cox Plate fancy Danceteria, are all horses currently ensconced at the quarantine centre in Werribee who each have fascinating backstories. But perhaps the most intriguing galloper of … Read more
BENBATL BACK IN A BIG WAY Godolphin’s Benbatl is far from done in his already decorated career and the 5-year-old winner of top-level affairs on three continents put an exclamation point on that sentiment with his return in this past Friday’s … Read more
Nine year olds filled three of the first four places in yesterday’s group 1 Underwood Stakes. Seven-year-old Scales of Justice won the group 1 Memsie Stakes and 100/1 bolter Gatting, a six-year-old, took out the other group 1 Makybe Diva … Read more
Alligator Blood stamped himself a real threat to Caulfield Guineas favourite Dalasan when he raced prominently and beat the pre-post favourite home in the Guineas Prelude for colts and geldings on Sunday. The win gave former Melbourne rider Ryan Maloney … Read more
THE UNDERWOOD Stakes has always been a significant guide to what lies ahead in the Melbourne Spring Carnival. Today’s renewal does not have any of the highly rated international raiders set to invade this town, but it does contain … Read more
Fifteen years ago transplanted trainer Lindsey Smith – he has now shifted part of his operation from Perth to Warrnambool – won the Victoria Derby with a WA galloper called Plastered. He could pull off the feat again with Adelaide … Read more
SURELY the most significant factor when assessing the form for this Group 1 $500,000 George Main Stakes (1600m) has to be the heavy track. As is so often the case in Sydney in the Spring, heavy rain has turned … Read more
Saturday, September 21 First Preliminary Final Collingwood vs. GWS Giants, MCG, 4.35pm AEST Collingwood 2019 Season Record: 16 Wins, 7 Losses Last 5 Games WIN Geelong 61-51 WIN Essendon 76-65 WIN Adelaide 114-48 WIN Melbourne 70-53 WIN Gold Coast … Read more
Three-year-old filly Search For A Song upstaged a slew of expensive and highly fancied Melbourne Cup candidates in only her fifth race start when she ran away with the Irish St Leger early Monday morning. Legendary Irish trainer Dermot Weld is … Read more
They say you can’t keep a good man down and Zac Purton proved that adage with a quartet of wins at Sha Tin today, Sunday, 15 September. The champion jockey saw a 26-meeting winning streak end on Wednesday night … Read more
Champion trainer David Hayes has pledged to throw everything he can at winning this year’s Melbourne Cup before he moves to Hong Kong next year. Hayes won the Cup in 1994 with Jeune before he went to Hong Kong for … Read more
Could a lightly raced three-year-old colt and a jockey barely known outside her state be the duo to shake South Australian racing out of the doldrums? After the way the Leon Macdonald and Andrew Gluyas-trained Dalasan and the reigning Adelaide … Read more
IF we were in the UK, supposedly the home of thoroughbred racing, they would be calling this a ‘proper’ horse race. Mind you, it does seem accurate – this renewal of the Makybe Diva Stakes at Flemington is a … Read more
The Victoria Racing Club (VRC) is thrilled to announce ten-time GRAMMY® Award-winning, record-breaking global superstar Taylor Swift will perform at Lexus Melbourne Cup Day on Tuesday 5 November, 2019. The American singer-songwriter will sing two of her latest hits in the Mounting … Read more
The Victoria Racing Club (VRC) has announced the evolution of Kennedy Oaks Day which will see the program of the third day of Australia’s premier racing event enhanced to include a fabulous front lawn luncheon, a later start to the … Read more
Leading racing figures Lloyd Williams and Jamie Lovett believe the handicapper has given their multiple entries a fair chance of landing the Melbourne Cup. Williams, the great race’s most-successful owner, has six horses among the top 25 in the weights. … Read more
Kew Gardens, the Irish-trained winner of the English St Leger, is the top weight for this year’s Melbourne Cup, while Godolphin-owned imports Avilius and the veteran Hartnell head the weights for the Caulfield Cup. The Aidan O’Brien-trained galloper Kew Gardens … Read more
Thursday, September 5, 2019 – Crack three-year-olds Advertise and Ten Sovereigns headline 13 runners chasing G1 glory in the £300,000 Betfair Sprint Cup at Haydock Park this Saturday, September 7, Betfair Sprint Day. Advertise (Martyn Meade/Frankie Dettori) is the … Read more
Godolphin’s Best Solution (above) is set to make his comeback after a long break from racing, per trainer Saeed bin Suroor. The son of Kodiak was crowned ‘Best Horse’ at the 2019 His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Horseracing … Read more
SURPRISE BABY’S win in last season’s Adelaide Cup may not have been the most important all year, but in time it may prove to be the most significant. At just his sixth race start SURPRISE BABY, trained by Horsham’s … Read more
Regency Legend stretched his perfect record to four wins with an impressive victory in the Class 1 HKSAR Chief Executive’s Cup Handicap (1200m) at Sha Tin today, Sunday, 1 September. The victory meant that trainer Danny Shum not only … Read more
THE racing game is an ever-changing, ever-evolving industry and tomorrow’s Group 1 $1 million Memsie Stakes (1400m) is real proof of that. The mighty mare Winx may be retired but almost on cue Sydney’s brilliant ALIZEE has slotted into … Read more
The James Cummings trained Alizee can continue the winning run of quality mares in the Memsie Stakes at Caulfield on Saturday. Although mares have not been successful in the last five runnings they have been to the fore since the … Read more
Going into the first AFL finals round the most intriguing question is whether Brisbane can reverse the loss to Richmond at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Round 23. There certainly are several reasons that the Lions can go into … Read more
GODOLPHIN’S gun open-age galloper AVILIUS tackles a hot field and some intriguing history when he resumes in the Group 1 $500,000 Winx Stakes (1400m) in Sydney. The former Warwick Stakes was re-named after the great mare Winx won her … Read more
Japanese mare Lys Gracieux is on target for a $2 million bonus if she can win the $5 million Cox Plate, thanks to the federal Agriculture Department, which has granted her an exemption to travel to Australia after she competed … Read more